The GVVA is the correct route on paper and rarely the one that gets a driver or warehouse operative onto your floor. Here is why — and the supplier-admission change arriving in 2027.
Malta used to be the easy one. It now grants the permit to the employer as much as to the worker — and an employer with high churn does not get one.
If you last looked at hiring foreign workers into Poland before mid-2025, most of what you know is out of date. The step employers complained about most has been abolished.
German fabricators and shipyards can hire non EU welders. What stops most of them is not the visa — it is recognition. Under the Skilled Immigration Act the…
Ask a driver in his second year in Kaunas what he is thinking about and it is rarely the job. It is whether his wife and children can join him. This is the…
The ground under permit renewals moved on 22 May 2026. A worker whose job ends no longer has to leave the country — which makes them available to you, and makes your own people considerably more mobile.
Some EU countries are close to impossible to hire blue collar workers into directly. The Netherlands is the clearest example: the GVVA single permit requires a…
In 2025 Lithuania replaced its labour market test with something simpler to administer and, for employers, easier to plan around — provided you understand the…
For years the obstacle to hiring non EU drivers in Germany was circular: you needed a German licence to work, and you needed to be in Germany to get one. Since…
Refusals are uncommon on a well prepared file, but they happen, and the first hour after one arrives is usually spent on the wrong things. Here is what a…
Employers hiring from outside the EU into Lithuania hear two terms used almost interchangeably: the temporary residence permit and the national visa. They are…
Everything in a Lithuanian work permit file waits on one document, and most employers have never heard of it before their first international hire. The…
